Heh.
Councilman Neil Sorensen of Spring City, a small town of 1,000 90 miles south of Salt Lake City, is drafting a resolution calling for every household to be armed and be trained. It would be non-binding; you could opt out.
It would be ironic if the law was written so that anyone who opts out has to put a sign on their front door announcing that “This household is not armed.”
President of the National Assocation of Police Officers and Boston Police Officer Thomas Nee is a member of Vice President Joe Biden’s gun control task force… Nee’s son, Joseph Nee, was convicted in 2008 for planning to commit mass murder of students and teachers at Marshfield High School in Massachusetts…
Huh. I have no idea about Nee’s views on gun ownership, though I can guess. But regardless, he seems an odd choice… I keep hearing Leonard Nimoy muttering something about being “emotionally compromised.” What are the chances that Nee places the blame for what almost happened on his lax parenting and/or his whackjob kid? As opposed to blaming the guns or video games or some such?
Never forget: it’s the right wingers who use violent imagery and speech…
Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal.
If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
Yes, I suppose this is some sort of attempt at humor. But imagine if a Republican had said something like this about, say, the ACLU or the Brady Campaign.
O Noes! There’s a Welsh company that sells .22 rifles that *look* like an AR-15! Panic!
“Frightening.” Hmm. This… is a freakin’ .22. A round used for taking down *rodents.* A weaker round is unlikely to be found.
And hey… isn’t the scope on backwards?
I understand the Sun is a muck-raking sensationalist tabloid of low character, kinda like the National Enquirer, the Weekly World News or the New York Times. But still, come on… freaking out over a .22?
Oh, California, how I don’t miss you so.
A little while ago, some California citizens subjects decided to go out and about openly carrying firearms. Keep in mind: this was legal. Plus, they were not *brandishing* their weapons; they were not knocking over gas stations; they were being in no way threatening; they were just going about their day openly armed (kinda… they didn’t actually have any bullets in the guns, which makes ’em little more than really expensive clubs).
So, what did the California state legislature do? They made it illegal to openly carry long guns.
This is perhaps a good test of whether or not you live in a free society: if you are allowed to do something only so long as you don’t actually do it… you’re not in a free society. But hey, as sort of a compromise the state legislature also raised taxes and has decided that illegal aliens should get taxpayer-funded in-state tuition breaks. Pretty great, right?
Times like this, I’m glad there’s a bloody great deadly desert (called “Nevada”) between California and Utah.
… to not knuckle under to the gun grabbers:
Where we can read some real whoppers:
1) I have fired guns only once in my life… our group were let loose on everything from Magnum 45 handguns
.45 Magnum? Hmm.
2) After the shootings at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, in July – where 70 people were hit, the worst victim-count in such an incident in US history, and 12 people died – sales of guns in the state rose by a staggering 41 per cent in the following month as people bought into the theory that if everyone in the theatre had been armed too, they’d have stopped the shooter.
Not much info on this as yet. An early 1958 General Electric study to provide the Snark intercontinental cruise missile with a nuclear turbojet to give the craft 200 hours of Mach 0.9 performance at 30,000 feet. As the Snark had only a single warhead, it’s not at all clear what this performance was hoped to accomplish. Best guess: These things would be launched, and then the Soviets would be told they’re out there, just orbiting around awaiting a “come home” code. Code not received… Snarks wander on in into the USSR and cause a ruckus. Sort of a last chance for Uncle Joe to get his nonsense under control. If the “come home” code was sent, presumably the Snarks would ditch in the ocean, either for recovery, or to plunge straight to the bottom.
A DUKW on display at the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles in Lexington, Nebraska. This particular amphibious truck has certainly seen better days, but I suspect it’s probably in line for restoration at some point. I don’t recall it having been there in previous years, so it might be a recent acquisition.
In January, Senator Feinstein will introduce a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.